RYM all-time Top 100 albums

[Good Old Days]

Very strange list from Rate Your Music site. Weird combination of classic well-known albums and nobodies.

RYM all-time Top 100 albums : *
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
2. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
4. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
5. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
6. Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
7. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
9. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
10. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
11. Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
12. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
13. Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)
14. Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
15. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
16. Beatles - Revolver (1966)
17. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
18. Nas - Illmatic (1994)
19. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000)
20. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)
21. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
22. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
23. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
24. Cure - Disintegration (1989)
25. King Crimson - Red (1974)

26. Slint - Spiderland (1991)
27. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
28. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
29. Björk - Vespertine (2001)
30. Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
31. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
32. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
33. Fishmans - Long Season (1996)
34. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
35. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
36. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969)
37. Portishead - Dummy (1994)
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
39. Beatles - The Beatles [White Album] (1968)
40. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985)
41. Fishmans - 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare (1999)
42. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
43. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)
44. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (1997)
45. Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)
46. David Bowie - Low (1977)
47. Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)
48. Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
49. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)
50. Television - Marquee Moon (1977)

51. Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
52. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
53. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016)
54. Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)
55. Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004)
56. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin [IV] (1971)
57. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996)
58. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
59. Björk - Homogenic (1997)
60. Elliott Smith - Either / Or (1997)
61. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
62. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)
63. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
64. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
65. Doors - The Doors (1967)
66. David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
67. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
68. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)
69. MF Doom - MM..Food (2004)
70. Joy Division - Closer (1980)
71. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
72. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)
73. Tyler, the Creator - Igor (2019)
74. David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
75. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)

76. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967)
77. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
78. J Dilla - Donuts (2006)
79. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live at Red Rocks '22 (2023)
80. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984)
81. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)
82. OutKast - Aquemini (1998)
83. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)
84. Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969)
85. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)
86. Can - Future Days (1973)
87. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
88. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
89. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
90. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
91. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)
92. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
93. Can - Tago Mago (1971)
94. Sigur Ros - Agætis byrjun (1999)
95. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
96. Death - Symbolic (1995)
97. Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
98. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
99. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
100. Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

* - on the current moment of time.

[Good Old Days]

Is it only me or you also never heard some acts (even their names, I don't talk about listening songs) ?

[TheThorne]

Heard of most of them , there is a huge metal community at RYM so you will find quite a bit of high rated genres that are not so mainstream things like death metal and black metal etc

[greendemon]

Seems to be disproportionately generated by Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Kendrick Lamar fans for some reason.

[greendemon]

Mar 23, 2023 12:05:40 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

Heard of most of them , there is a huge metal community at RYM so you will find quite a bit of high rated genres that are not so mainstream things like death metal and black metal etc

That explains what Death are doing in there

Though I'm surprised more classic metal albums aren't in there, I mean sure Black Sabbath and Metallica but you'd expect 'Rust In Peace', 'The Number of the Beast' etc...

[TheThorne]

Mar 23, 2023 12:06:31 GMT 1 greendemon said:

Seems to be disproportionately generated by Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Kendrick Lamar fans for some reason.

All three are critical darlings for different generations , there are three kinds of people on RYM

People who only like what they are supposed to like , people who follow those people and then the minority all doing their own things.

[Whitneyfan]

How did I know 'OK Computer' would be near the top?! Never understood its appeal, and probably never will.

[Good Old Days]

Mar 23, 2023 13:17:49 GMT 1 Whitneyfan said:

How did I know 'OK Computer' would be near the top?! Never understood its appeal, and probably never will.

"OK Computer" was their # 1 for very long period and was dethroned by Kendrick Lamar album only in 2023 year.